By Timothy P. Carney, in washingtonpost.com Timothy P. Carney is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and the author of “Family Unfriendly: How Our Culture Made Raising Kids Much Harder Than It Needs To Be.” “How do you do it?” As parents of an unusually large brood, my wife and I get that question a lot. Sometimes I respond by bragging about my mass-produced breakfast sandwiches and zoo-trip techniques. But if I’m honest, there are two truer answers to “How do you do it?” One is that we don’t do a lot of things: travel sports, twee Saturday morning art ..read more

The awards will be presented on May 25 at a public event in Barcelona This year’s International “Fighter for the Family” award goes to the Italian Maria Regina Maroncelli Florio, president since 2018 of ELFAC (European Large Families Confederation). During several years, she has also been an active member of the board of the Italian association of large families. Natural and resident in Bergamo (Lombardy), she is a mother of four children, a freelance journalist specialized in sustainability and society. ELFAC was founded in 2004 and represents nine million large families in Eur ..read more

The event took place in the Riga Zoo in a festival for large families. The following day he met with representatives of the Riga City Council. 1 May, a public holiday throughout Europe, is the day chosen for the past three years by the Latvian Large Families‘ Union to celebrate Large Families’ Day, with a festive day at the Riga City Zoo. During the festival, the European Large Family of the Year Award was presented to the Ozoli family, winner of the 2023 edition, by Raúl Sánchez, secretary general of ELFAC. The award was presented after performances during the morning of various children’s mu ..read more

By Yekaterina Chzhen, Jonathan Bradshaw Abstract The United Kingdom two-child policy was announced in 2015 and began to operate from April 2017. A mother claiming a range of means-tested benefits who had a third or subsequent child born after 6 April 2017 could not receive a child addition for them, while a new claimant with three or more children would now receive no more than a claimant with two children. Using data from nationally representative annual living conditions surveys for the period up to 2019/20, we find that larger families experienced substantial real income losses since t ..read more

By Stephan Köppe, Megan Curran, Iñigo Aldama Abstract Historically, researchers and policymakers alike recognized the risk of poverty among large families, but family size is often neglected in the contemporary literature. This article revives an examination of the connections between family size and poverty risk for children with a focus on Germany. We take a child-centered perspective by analyzing a sample of 13–14 year-old children from the National Educational Panel Study (NEPS). First, we provide a detailed overview of the welfare and tax policies aimed at large families in Germ ..read more

ELFAC’s statement is one of the 23 from all the world approved and distributed for the 57th session of the Commission on Population and Development of the United Nations which will take place in New York from 29 April to 3 May. The statement highlights that parents have a basic human right to decide freely and responsibly the number and spacing of their children and it calls for full respect of the right of parents to have the number of children they wish, without punitive legislation or attitudes such as social stigma and adverse economic barriers that make having children a risk factor for p ..read more

The fair was open to all families, regardless of membership in Croatian Large Families Association “Obitelji 3plus“. On Saturday, March 23, 2024, the second Children’s Clothing, Shoes, Toys and Other Equipment Exchange Fair was held. The fair took place in the Point shopping center in Zagreb from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. A trade fair is an event where you can exchange items not needed for items that would be useful to you, for free. The exchange is not direct, we leave items we want to give away and choose the things we need. Surplus items that remain after the fair are donated to humanitarian organ ..read more

The Generations and Gender Program (GGP) is an international social science research infrastructure that provides high-quality and timely data to researchers and other stakeholders interested in solving current demographic and social challenges. On March 19, 2024 the presentation of the results of the international research GGP-Generations & Gender Program in the Republic of Croatia was held in the National and University Library in Zagreb. The institutions that worked on the survey in the Republic of Croatia are the Central State Office for Demography and Youth, IPSOS, the Faculty of Econ ..read more

By Karin Heitzmann, Astrid Pennerstorfer In many countries, large families with three or more children have high income poverty rates. In this article, we aim to understand why this is the case by examining the relevance of family structure, socio-economic characteristics, and welfare state transfers targeted at this family form. For our analyses, we use cross-sectional data from three waves (2017–2019) of the Austrian European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions dataset. Our results, based on descriptive statistics, logistic regressions, and decomposition analyses, confirm t ..read more

The Portuguese Large Families Association (APFN) launched a survey among its members in order to find out about the experience, challenges and interests of large families with the ministerial themes of the new Constitutional Government. Completing the survey is voluntary and is not associated with any financial compensation for the benefit of either party, and the data collected is anonymous. The APFN, which already represents more than 12,000 families, wants to continue its attentive and active stance in defending the rights of large families, with the political community, to ensure greater e ..read more